Improvement in table-cutlery



H. C. WILCX..

Table Cutlery.

No.15() 382, Patented Aprl28,l874.

TED STATES PATENT rrlon1 HORACE C. VILCOX, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT,ASSIGNOR TO THE MERIDEN BRITANNIA COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TABLE-CUTLERY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,382, dated April28, 1F74 application filed March 26, 1S74.

To alt whom. it may concern: The blade A, bolster B, and handle C areBeit known that I, HORACE C. WrLooX, of formed together in one and thesame piece by Test Meriden, in the county of New Haven the usual processof forging, and then ground, and State of Connecticut, have invented aas usual. I then submit the handle C to a new Improvement inTable-Cutlery; andl I do strong sand-blast, which forms a sharp mattedhereby declare the following, when taken in surface, and having theappearance as shown connection with the accompanying drawing in thedrawing. This takes away the usual and the letters of referencemarkedthereon, smoothness of 4this class of handles, which to be a full,clear, and exact description of the renders them difficult to handle andgives to same, and which said drawing constitutes part the handle acomfortable and pleasant feeling of this specification, and represents aside view in the hand, and enables theperson to hold of a table-knife.the knife iirmly.

This invention relates to an improvement I claim as my inventioniufinishing the handles of that class of table- As an article ofmanufacture, table-cutlery cutlery in which the handle, bolster, andblade in which the handle, bolster, and blade are in are made in onepiece, the object being to give one and the same piece of steel and thehana matted or granulated appearance to the handle cut or matted bysand-blast, substantially die, whereby the handle is more convenientlyas described.

and comfortably held in the hand; and the invention consists in givingto the handle a HORACE C. VILCOX. sand-blast77 finish before it iseleetroplated.

I represent only a knife, but it will be un-l Vitnesses: derstood thatother articles of table-cutlery WVM., M. SMITH, are included. ORvTLLE H.PLATT.

